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NYPD Undercover Spying Unit Revealed as Extensive, Far-Reaching
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Matt Appuzo discusses how the NYPD intelligence gathering targets everyone from Muslims to Republican convention attendees.
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Chris Hedges | The Origins of Our Police State
Our failure to protect lower income citizens and people of color will recreate their fate for the larger masses underneath the growing police state.
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Yesterday’s Internment Camp – Today’s Labor Camp
Laborers live near a WWII Japanese Internment camp and in not much different conditions while Congress debates migrant worker bills.
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Common Ground’s Eighth Anniversary: A Model of Volunteer-Driven Rebuilding in New Orleans
Common Ground offers a model of how volunteers of good will working with affected communities can make a difference.
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Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
With a $4.6 million check to the campaing to defeat a GMO food labeling vote in Washington state this fall, Monsanto is banking on repeating its California victory.
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Trafficking of Children and Women in India
End trafficking in India and the worldwide epidemic in human suffering caused by this crime will be greatly reduced.
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Immigration Advocates Block DC Streets, 121 Arrested
Before blocking the intersection and arrival of the US Capitol Police, other speakers at the news conference addressed why comprehensive immigration reform is important to them, their families, colleagues …
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AFL-CIO to Fight “Trade” Deals Like TPP
The AFL-CIO convention passed a resolution vowing to fight any trade agreement that promotes the rise in corporate power at the expense of working people.
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American Bombing Still Likely: “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!“
Many Syrians have offered to open their homes to foreign supporters of Syria, who likely would be camped at key potential bombing sites.
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Low Expectations for High-Level Nuke Meet
The Disarmament Commission has met ritualistically every year without any agreed texts in the last 14 years.